Many times, it is easier to find exploits when the source is open than the "guess and check method" as was stated above. The strcpy() function is a good example of this. It would be more difficult (not implssible though) to find out exactly where in the flow of the code it was possible to write too many characters into the unchecked buffer if one did not have the source.
There was another example of some SunOS exploit that was found in/bin/login that was only found when someone "acquired" the souce for it. It had something to do with an environment variable that pretty much seemed like a backdoor implimented by someone who coded it. That probably wouldn't have been found if it wasn't for someone looking at the source.
no thats exactly the problem, their not communists their capitalists who are doing this. they're going to make billions on these laws, while we choke on the free smog because we dont have enoght to pay for our one room apartment with the income from our three jobs.
discover an unknown island and declare your self the king, diplomatic immunity.
Actually they give people one more reason to turn to Free Software : Feeling right...
Im not so sure about this statement. How are you going to get that Free Software to run without knowing about that hardware embedded copy protection? Anything thats audio/video is going to have to be checked to see if its pirated. Any sort of programming magic you do to get around this copy protection would seem illegal.
Just a thought.
Desqview
This was posted in an eariler slashdot article.
A small window manager that was really good at its
job. An X11 gui that sits on dos. Might be fun to
combine this and FreeDOS.
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every sperm is special...
thus sayeth Monty Python: Meaning of life
woopie
The Familiar Distro has worked well for me. (just incase you want a suggestion.)
Get a compaq ipaq handheld, and put linux on it, there is no stopping the upgrading there.
Many times, it is easier to find exploits when the source is open than the "guess and check method" as was stated above. The strcpy() function is a good example of this. It would be more difficult (not implssible though) to find out exactly where in the flow of the code it was possible to write too many characters into the unchecked buffer if one did not have the source.
/bin/login that was only found when someone "acquired" the souce for it. It had something to do with an environment variable that pretty much seemed like a backdoor implimented by someone who coded it. That probably wouldn't have been found if it wasn't for someone looking at the source.
There was another example of some SunOS exploit that was found in
This reminds me of something in a slashdot article I saw a few months back.
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no thats exactly the problem, their not communists their capitalists who are doing this. they're going to make billions on these laws, while we choke on the free smog because we dont have enoght to pay for our one room apartment with the income from our three jobs. discover an unknown island and declare your self the king, diplomatic immunity.
Actually they give people one more reason to turn to Free Software : Feeling right... Im not so sure about this statement. How are you going to get that Free Software to run without knowing about that hardware embedded copy protection? Anything thats audio/video is going to have to be checked to see if its pirated. Any sort of programming magic you do to get around this copy protection would seem illegal. Just a thought.
silly discordian :)
Desqview This was posted in an eariler slashdot article. A small window manager that was really good at its job. An X11 gui that sits on dos. Might be fun to combine this and FreeDOS.